Definitions
1.VerbTo die because of lack of food or of not eating.
2.VerbTo suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
3.VerbTo be very hungry."I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks."
4.VerbTo kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
5.VerbTo make suffer severely by depriving of food.
6.VerbTo force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege."If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out."
7.VerbTo force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts."Some historians have since classified the Siege of Leningrad as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population."
8.VerbTo deprive of nourishment or of some vital component."The uncaring parents starved the child of love.; The patient’s brain was starved of oxygen."
9.VerbTo deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
10.VerbTo kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold."I was half starved waiting out in that wind."
11.VerbTo die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.